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Alex Tan

3×3 · top 18.5% of 284,439 all-time · competing since May 2015 · 2015TANA01

Alex Tan has been competing for 11 years. His best event is the 3×3: a personal-best single of 13.31, set at Vancouver Fall 2016, puts him in the top 18.5% of the 284,439 people who have ever been ranked in the event, and 1,754th in Canada. Across 3 competitions since May 2015, he has put 45 official solves on the record across four events. Solve to solve, his 3×3 times vary about 16% around a typical one, an early reading from 5 counted rounds. His 3×3 best has come down from 20.00 in May 2015 to 13.31, a 33% improvement. Alex has entered three competitions, more competitions than 69% of everyone who has ever competed.

3×3
best event — top 18.5% of 284,439 all-time
13.31
signature single · Vancouver Fall 2016
45
official solves on the record

Standing, event by event

vs everyone ever ranked
EventPB singlePB averageAll-time standingCanada
3×313.3114.70
top 18.5%1,754 / 10,392
2×24.465.77
top 32.4%2,213 / 7,173
Pyraminx7.6313.34
top 33.1%1,471 / 4,858
3×3 one-handed40.6351.16
top 66.2%1,606 / 2,620

Percentile against all competitors ever ranked in each event, a fairer measure than raw rank, because the pools differ by a factor of ten.

The line so far

Vancouver Open Spring 2015: 20.00Vancouver Open Summer 2015: 16.18Vancouver Fall 2016: 13.3113.3120.002 May 201515 Oct 2016

Best single per competition, 3×3. Faster is higher — the axis is the right way up.

The story so far

Competitions

Reading this page: a single is one solve's time · an average is the middle three of five solves, best and worst discarded · a PB is a personal best · a DNF (did not finish) is an attempt with no valid result: a popped piece, an unsolved face, an over-limit memorisation · top X% compares against everyone ever ranked in that event, which is fairer than raw rank because event pools differ tenfold.

The circuit

The people whose scorecards keep turning up next to his.

Next targets

  • A sub-12 3×3 single — 39,535 people have one; it is 1.31 away.
  • A sub-4 2×2 single — 49,452 people have one; it is 0.46 away.

Targets move as he improves.